The nursing profession and its interest for the human sciences
The purpose of this research is to study the question of nursing’s interest for the human sciences. The development of the human sciences since the global diploma of 1992 should allow them to appropriate theoretical concepts of the human sciences. Along with other teachings, these enable a holistic medical approach. However, it has been noticed that many nurses do not pay any attention to subjects like sociology, psychology, and anthropology. The sociological route taken by the current project led us to the following hypothesis: If nurses do not pay any attention to these subjects, this may have something to do with their social condition, in the way Bourdieu conceptualized it. Fieldwork consisted of a statistical exploitation panel of 152 tests, trying to measure the interest for the human sciences and to combine the results obtained with sex, age, social origins, year of diploma, and specialty.